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Birdless world; stronger K-T
Topic Started: Nov 5 2009, 08:41 PM (4,597 Views)
Canis Lupis
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

65 million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth and wiped out a good percentage of life on the planet.

Among the extinct were all dinosaurs (save for birds), all air reptiles, all marine reptiles, and a few groups I forgot to mention (I'm not a paleontologist, so if someone were to name all the groups that went extinct, I'd be grateful).



Anyway, what I was wondering was: what if the asteroid had been slightly larger? Large enough to count the birds among those forever buried in the fossil record.

What would the post K-T world be like without birds?

Discuss ideas and possible creatures.


P.S. If you're interested in turning this into an actual project, let me know.
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ATEK Azul
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I was not saying you specificly I was more of saying this topic and some what this site.

(Goes crazy.)

That right I am talking about the Bat wing convergent extremists of the site(waves finger at you all).
I am dyslexic, please ignore the typo's!
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I'm part of 'you all' right?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Maybe I try not to remember specific people doing these things since it can cause grudges.
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So the Polar fliers are the second group, has the second group been decided on yet?
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Holben
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Not sure...
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Nope and I am glad because the people in the topics were going to make them have Bat wings with Membranes(read death at the poles).
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death at the poles... that sounds like a novel.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Lol it does doesn't it? Thats funny but I said it as a reminder of what I have been saying the entire topic so I guess it had to have some humor lol.
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Humour makes the world go round. As a figure of speech.

But back on course, could this second group have fire-breathers?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I would like them breathing fire but if you look at Dragon topics here you will see that alot of people don't want it or think it would be more harm then good.
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Well, i had to try. Although unlikely, they are seriously cool.

And dragons...
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I would love fire breathing Mammals my self. But they would cause an extinction/revolution in plants and animals as they try to become fire proof.
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That might be hard...
But a mutant fire-breather might simply explode.
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Nope and I am glad because the people in the topics were going to make them have Bat wings with Membranes(read death at the poles).
To be fair I was the one that suggested that so I should be taking the blame.

For the polar fliers maybe it could fall the marsupials with feather like structures which evolved in the south while bats evolved in the north. Then some of them could stay on Antartica when it freezed over.
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Hmmm... it's a good idea.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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